Save the children

Tuesday

Dec 25, 2012 at 12:01 AM

Editor: With the terrible school shootings happening so close to Christmas, I keep getting this image in my mind. I see a winter's night sky with twinkling stars. In this sky, I see a sleigh that has stopped in mid air. I see a team of reindeer, but their heads are slumped in sorrow. I see Santa, but he is not jolly. He has tears streaming down his face, and he is marking names off a list, which he holds with shaking hands.

Editor: With the terrible school shootings happening so close to Christmas, I keep getting this image in my mind. I see a winter's night sky with twinkling stars. In this sky, I see a sleigh that has stopped in mid air. I see a team of reindeer, but their heads are slumped in sorrow. I see Santa, but he is not jolly. He has tears streaming down his face, and he is marking names off a list, which he holds with shaking hands.Before his sleigh, he sees a single file of 20 tiny angels winding their way up toward the heavens. Six larger angels are with them, protective and determined, that no more hurt shall ever occur to the small ones ever, ever again.As this image fades away, I think of the children who survived the shooting. At this time of year, they should have visions of sugar plums in their heads instead of visions of a killer breaking in on them with weapons of war.I hope our nation's leaders can come together and do something to stop these horrors. The killer's bullets did not care if they struck down a Republican's child or a Democrat's child. Our leaders should show the courage to finish what the six heroes so bravely surrendered their lives to do: to save the children.Roger MartinLexington